Computer Viruses and Identity Theft

March 16th, 2009 Rob Douglas

Computer-virus infections don’t cause your machine to crash anymore.

Nowadays, the criminals behind the infections usually want your computer operating in top form so you don’t know something’s wrong. That way, they can log your keystrokes and steal any passwords or credit-card numbers you enter at Web sites, or they can link your infected computer with others to send out spam.

Here are some signs your computer is infected, tapped to serve as part of “botnet” armies run by criminals:

See the full report at MSNBC.com.

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